Back to the Future
Interpretation of Post-Covid-19 Architecture through 1960s Futurism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21680113 |
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| Authors | Elif Öztek (0000-0002-3711-180X, Middle East Technical University), Bilge Karakaş (0000-0003-2078-0836, Middle East Technical University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | İDEALKENT (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1307-9905 • E-ISSN: 2602-2133 |
| Publisher | IDEALKENT (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31198/idealkent.879088 |
| OpenAlex | W3203682847 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
COVID-19 has changed configuration and need in architectural and urban space. Today, only the pandemic’s short-term consequences have been seen in architecture, whereas the long-term influences are being discussed. This article aims to look for insight into post-pandemic architecture in the long term through futuristic projects in the 1960s. Therefore, a literature review about post-disease architecture after 19th century epidemics and healthy environment criteria for COVID-19 were conducted in this study. Then, three significant figures of the futurist movement were chosen as case studies: Buckminster Fuller, Reyner Banham, and Archigram. Their distinctive theories and unique science-fiction projects were examined and discussed concerning contagious diseases and pandemic's reflections on spaces. According to the interpretation of these architect’s works and arguments, an open-ended, nomadic, formless architecture in which technology and infrastructure gave the individual better freedom could be associated with the post-pandemic built environment
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art history · Disease · Epistemology · Futurist · Linguistics · Pandemic · Sociology · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Urban Green Space and Health · Architecture
| Highly cited | No |
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